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by michaeldwan 1065 days ago
I don't know why the app-not-working category effectively delists threads, but until we find out, I just removed it so this thread is public again.
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may be it's to avoid search engines to not scrape these threads?
My understanding is that it was causing support problems, because people were Googling for solutions to problems with their apps (because of the Heroku diaspora, we have a lot of first-time Docker users), finding old stale threads on our forum that looked related, and then reviving them.

I think we can just `noindex` the category instead of making it private?

So the tagged posts were intentionally hidden, then.